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[ UK /hˈɜːtfə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈhɝtfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. causing hurt
    her hurtful unconsidered words
  2. harmful to living things
    deleterious chemical additives

How To Use hurtful In A Sentence

  • She has shown that hurtful comments can be turned into a force for good. The Sun
  • Comments that the food was bland are also quite hurtful. Times, Sunday Times
  • The most hurtful thing is he saves all the cards and photos. The Sun
  • It's been very hurtful, and no one has been prepared to put their names to these allegations.
  • I think that there's room for debate about what is or isn't appropriate for public calling-out, but I think that the word *debate* there is key - not just running with a default assumption of anything possibly hurtful = bad = verboten. Community Is Hard. Deal With It.
  • I've been really mulling this over, *are* there comments that might not be *that* hurtful to me? Committee meetings
  • I don't know what else could have been so hurtful that, this many years later, it's still unmentionable. THE SAVING GRACES
  • Clearly know love is a hurtful things, but we still relentlessness to choose love.
  • And thus, of articles of food, those which are unsuitable and hurtful to man when administered, every one is either bitter, or intensely so, or saltish or acid, or something else intense and strong, and therefore we are disordered by them in like manner as we are by the secretions in the body. On Ancient Medicine
  • This deliberate emphasis on the young people's unreliable and hurtful past relationships poses a dilemma for residential workers.
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